GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| pinnace | a light sailing ship |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |